Bill Gates World's Richest Self-Made Billionaire: Report
New York: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is the world's richest self-made billionaire with a personal fortune totalling nearly $86 billion (Rs 5.5 lakh crore at 1 dollar = 64 rupees), according to Wealth-X, a global wealth intelligence company.
Warren Buffett with $70.1 billion took the second slot on the list. Mr Buffett was followed by Spain's Amancio Ortega ($65 billion).
The top ten included Larry Ellison ($51.5 billion), Ingvar Kamprad ($48.1 billion), Jeff Bezos ($39.8 billion), Carlos Slim ($35.4 billion), Mark Zuckerberg ($35,3 billion), Wang Jianlin ($35.2 billion) and Michael Bloomberg ($33.7 billion).
American entrepreneurs dominated the Wealth-X list, snapping up 14 of the 25 spots. The combined wealth of the 14 Americans on the list read $514.2 billion, which is greater than GDP of Norway.
No Indian made it to the coveted list.
Sector-wise, the technology sector proved yet again to be an incubator of great fortunes.
The list also featured Google's Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and Alibaba's Jack Ma.
